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SecondEdition wrote:Let's compare.
Superstition live on Sesame Street. I think the kid rocking out is inspiring.
San Quentin live at San Quentin. Lyrics like that took balls.
NerblyBear wrote:Paul Westerberg had a beautiful voice.
simmo wrote:Someone make my carrot and grapefruits smoke. Please.
Rick Reuben wrote:Marsupialized reminds me of freedom
Marsupialized wrote:You know he's not really blind, it's all a schtick
He's also a convicted child murderer, you know that right?
He killed a 4 year old neighbor of his when he was in his early teens over a stolen harmonica, beat him in the head with a rock, did 6 years in prison.
that damned fly wrote:Marsupialized wrote:You know he's not really blind, it's all a schtick
He's also a convicted child murderer, you know that right?
He killed a 4 year old neighbor of his when he was in his early teens over a stolen harmonica, beat him in the head with a rock, did 6 years in prison.
and how is this not awesome?
Rick Reuben wrote:Marsupialized reminds me of freedom
Marsupialized wrote:well, they say he did things to the body....unseeable things.
Marsupialized wrote:well, they say he did things to the body....unspeakable things
And Soul! James Brown invented Soul! Quite literally Soul Brother Number One. Some might say Ray Charles on that. I say James Brown.tmidgett wrote:vockins wrote:tmidgett wrote:In the case of JB, he had a much more businesslike relationship to what he did than anyone else we're talking about, so that affects things. But he also invented funk, which also affects things
James Brown is in another universe from anyone mentioned in this thread, or any other thread.
Yeah, I was speaking only to the emotional breadth of his songs.
My point being that emotional breadth is irrelevant when you actually invent funk and transform popular music in the process. He had well done his work by that point.
Fuck, my friend, you could make entire genres from that shit! Entire gigantic sections in record stores that owe their existence to James Brown. I can think of two! And I'm probably not thinking of one!You could make entire records of just the basslines or just the drum breaks....Ah, people do this already, don't they?
Please, Please, Don't Go! That is some grim shit!I don't know, I'm probably giving him short shrift even on that point. It's a Man's Man's Man's World, Try Me, etc.
I guess what I'm getting at is that he was a showman much more than anyone else we're discussing, except Prince maybe. And as a showman, he tended to work with a pretty wide brush on the emotional front.
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